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Get ready for what may be the hottest day of 2016 so far, with temps roughly 10 degrees higher than normal for this time of year in the Valley.

The projected high today is 104 degrees, with a low of 76, according to the National Weather Service. The normal high for this time of year sits around 94 degrees.

This weekend, a dry heat is expected, with little to no chance of rain. Saturday will still be pretty warm, with a predicted high of 101 and a low of 73.

Things will start to cool Sunday when a storm system moves through Nevada and Utah. The high is expected to dip back down to 94 degrees.

By next week, the temperature should drop about 15 degrees, with highs in the upper 80s and lows in the upper 60s on Monday and Tuesday.

Today in history:

In 1940, Winston Churchill told Parliament in his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Venezuela.

In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb on the group’s row house; 11 people died in the resulting fire that destroyed 61 homes.

A sandcastle honoring Navy SEAL Charlie Keating at the beach in front of the Hotel del Coronado on Coronado Island, Calif., on Thursday, May 12, 2016. Keating, a graduate of Arcadia High School in Phoenix, died in northern Iraq after ISIS penetrated the area on May 3, 2016. Keating's grandfather of the same name was the famous savings and loan financier. Keating's funeral is on May 13 on Coronado Island and San Diego.(Photo: David Wallace/The Republic)

A private funeral for fallen Navy SEAL Charlie Keating, 31, of Phoenix, will be held today in Coronado, Calif., and will be followed by a public procession to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, where Keating will be buried.

Touching tributes to Keating have been popping up all over the San Diego area, azcentral's Kaila White reports.

On the beach where Keating trained with his SEAL brothers in Coronado, one man built an enormous sandcastle in Keating's honor and has been watching over it and tending to it for days. Visitors have left flowers and gifts.

Keating's grandmother Phyllis Holmes, of Phoenix, visited the site Thursday, stopping to kneel near where a SEAL had pressed a medal into the sand next to Keating's name.

A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathrooms at Oval Park Grill on May 11, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide as the U.S. Department of Justice countersues North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory from enforcing the provisions of House Bill 2 (HB2) that dictate what bathrooms transgender individuals can use.(Photo: Sara D. Davis, Getty Images)

The move by the Obama administration is the latest salvo in the contentious public debate over transgender rights.

In a letter to be sent today to school districts across the U.S., the Department of Education maintains that requiring transgender students to use same-sex facilities violates Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination based on sex.

"When a school provides sex-segregated activities and facilities, transgender students must be allowed to participate in such activities and access such facilities consistent with their gender identity," reads the letter, signed by two Obama administration officials.

Macayo's CEO Sharisse Johnson stands outside of the Central Avenue location in central Phoenix in this file photo. The restaurant plans to move into an auto-shop building across the street.(Photo: Michael Schennum/The Republic)

Developer Wood Partners is proposing a 225-unit apartment complex on Central and Indianola avenues, according to plans filed with the city of Phoenix.

Macayo’s announced Thursday that the restaurant plans to move into an auto-shop building across the street from the 3.31-acre site. It’s an adaptive reuse project that will aim to keep some of the current elements, like the carved wooden doors, the restaurant said.

Macayo’s also says it's working with the city to bring the iconic sign to the new location.

More than 3,000 bags missed flights after a TSA computer glitch caused a massive backup at Sky Harbor on May 12, 2016.(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)